Y esta astrología o nigromancia fue tomada y hobo origen de una mujer que se llama Oxomoco y de un hombre que se llama Cipactónal. Y los maestros desta astrología o nigromancia que contaban estos signos, que se llamaban tonalpouhque, pintaban a esta mujer Oxomoco y a este hombre Cipactónal y los ponían en medio de los libros donde estaban escritos todos los caracteres de cada día, porque decían que eran señores desta astrología o nigromancia, como principales astrólogos, porque la inventaron y hicieron esta cuenta de todos los caracteres.
\nAnd this astrology or necromancy had its origin and was taken from a woman called Oxomoco and from a man called Cipactonal. And the masters of this astrology or necromancy, who counted these signs and were called tonalpouhqueh, painted this woman Oxomoco and this man Cipactonal, and placed them in the middle of the books where all the characters of each day were written, because they said that they were the lords of this astrology or necromancy, like prominent astrologers,1 because they had invented it and made the count of all the characters.
\n“Like prominent astrologers”: como principales astrólogos. The adjective principal also has the connotation of “noble.”↩
[tiaca]oan, iaopan concaoaia: vel oncan in necalioa, in tlaiecolo, yn japaniocan contocaia.
\nAuh intla çioatl otlacat: ynjc caltiaia imalac, ichcauh, itzaoalcax, ioan ipopouh, iochpanoaz ipan contemaia yn jnealtilcax, in jnealtilapaz: yc qujnextiaia, in âcampa ianj cioatzintli, çan cali ichan: ic çan metlatitlan, tlecujlnacazco contocaia yn jxic.
\nAuh inin tonalpoalli, iuh mjtoaia: iehoan intlanextil, iehoan qujtemacaque, in vmentin teneoalo, intoca Oxomoco, ioan cipactonal: in Oxomoco cioatl inic qujcujloaia: auh in Cipactonal oqujchtli: in tonalpouhque catca yn jntonalamauh qujiollotiaia, yn jmjxiptla ynepantla qujntlaliaia, injc qujcujcujloaia : ca iuh mjtoaia: vncan tlatoque muchioa yn jpan ixqujch tonalpoalli.
\nbrave chieftains, who left it at the battlefield. Right there where they fought, where there was fierce battle, at the crossing of the waters, they buried it.
\nAnd if it were a woman, when they bathed her, they put into the vessel in which she was bathed, the large earthen bathing vessel, her spindle, her cotton, her spinning bowl, her sweeper, and her broom. Thus they showed that the girl was one who went nowhere; only the house was her abode. Hence, near the grinding stone, at the edge of the hearth, they buried her umbilical cord.
\nAnd this count of days—so was it claimed—was an invention of the two called and named Oxomoco and Cipactonal, who gave it to the people. Oxomoco they painted as a woman, and Cipactonal [as] a man. They who were readers of day signs embellished their book of days with their representations, which they placed in the middle when they painted them. For it was so said that there they became lords of all the day count.
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